The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14
CURIOUS ATTEMPTS AT FRAUD.
Hard Cases with Which Life Insurance
Companies Have to Deal.

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Hard Cases with Which Life Insurance
Companies Have to Deal.
"a number OF curious instances of
attempts In defraud life insurance COM
panies were related at the recent con-
vention held in Boston of a number
OF companies said the attorney OF IA
vel, known life insurance company TO
n reporter for the Mail and Express.
. ono was OF man in Catskill N.
Y, WHO made application for $4,000
Insurance for the benefit OF himself
ana drained it, and shortly afterwards
olt3rcd IN, accident policy Of $1,000
In New England company,
. can best give the story in the Ian
guasc of the gentleman who told it
ana in whose company the $1,000 policy
was obtained.
The first we heard OF the CASE
he said, was telegram that the in
surrl referred TO had been drowned Nv
eXpyr.,,Jec IN insurance has led me to
look With suspicion upon all accidental
or myslarious disappearance.
- We therefore sent an agent to Cat
skill, who reported that the party, in
company with his brother and boy,
had been out fishing at IL o'clock
at right in the Catskill creek. near its
confluence with the Hudson river. and
that tie took an oar to ascertain
the depth of the water, lost his balance
ana fol- overheard.
Search was made for the body
by the citizens OF the town in the waters
OF the Hudson, while we were searching
for the body on land,
- 1t would be tedious to tell you the
skillful work it required; suffice it TO
say that we found the would-be corps,
in Cleveland, Ohio. and on his persol
found correspondence written in c
pher, and also key to it, which dis
closed an Infamous conspiracy.
A case told by the representative %
another company showed how an age
tried to secure money fraudulently FRO
company.
/ 1.-The insurance was effected throug'
an application presented in the name 6
James W. Heirs, OF Norfolk, Nirgini
The agent sent on the application. !
was perfectly clear
The man who had been examine
stood six feet one inch and weighed II
pounds. His measurements were cor
rect. The examination was made by one
of the finest and best physicians in the
CITY Of Norfolk and the certificate was O..
course written.
Through the custom which had been
adopted byt association of local treas.
urers, receipt was forwarded for the
collection of the annual dues to the
local treasurer, at the same time that
the policy was sent to the agent,
1.-The local trca 'urer reported back to
the home Office that he could not find
any such man as James W. Heirs
there wa, mal by that name who had
lived there in the November previous
this application Icing made to the as.
social on the latter part of February
some five months after the decease Of
the party insured.
1.-The beneficiary under the policI
was a friend of tho agent, the lar !
whom he had Instituted at tie tim,
of making the examination, to whom
tht money was 10 be paid in trust
the widow. lie was also mentioned
In the application as one Of the friends
of the app. icant. A fictitious set O
proofs were in all probability to b,
presented to tn association in sixty o.
ninety DAYS or iour months, by TIL
friend of the CONT, making tho claim
for the moHcy itch would KAY lee,
paid to Inn, # the com; any had 10
invest S%'e t'e hit't@r' VI ',ast 10
the Mi~o"' VINO never """la nav
hearI Oh IT,
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